The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
Astronomers are tracking a visitor called 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. The two previous instances were 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS turns solar conjunction into a spacecraft-only laboratory
When 3I/ATLAS went round the back of the Sun as seen by Earth, the instant seemed as though it were a shut door. On October ...
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Is 3I/ATLAS an alien probe? James Webb Telescope finds 'anomalous' methane on interstellar comet
By the time the rumours reached the 'alien probe' stage, 3I/ATLAS had already slipped past the Sun and was heading back into ...
A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.
Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...
NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.
NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...
In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims humanity missed a historic chance to find alien life on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, warning it may have been a spacecraft on a seeding mission.
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